Narrative Medicine: Honoring the Stories of Illness

by Rita Charon

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Narrative medicine has emerged in response to a commodified health care system that places corporate and bureaucratic concerns over the needs of the patient. Generated from a confluence of sources including humanities and medicine, primary care medicine, narratology, and the study of doctor-patient relationships, narrative medicine is medicine practiced with the competence to recognize, absorb, interpret, and be moved by the stories of illness. By...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0195340221

ISBN13:9780195340228

Release Date:January 2008

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:304 Pages

Weight:1.00 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"

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Administration & Medicine Economics Administration & Policy Clinical Diagnosis Doctor-Patient Relations Ethics Hospital Administration Medical Medical Books Medical Ethics

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